How fiction and film are shaping the Occupation narrative in France
November 21, 2025
November 21, 2025
ITHACA, New York, Nov. 21 -- Cornell University posted the following news:
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How fiction and film are shaping the Occupation narrative in France
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Before 2009, when the TV series "A French Village" ("Un village francais") began, a mythology persisted among ordinary people that French citizens protected Jews during the German Occupation, according to scholar Daniel R. Schwarz. "Every family believed its ancestors bel . . .
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How fiction and film are shaping the Occupation narrative in France
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Before 2009, when the TV series "A French Village" ("Un village francais") began, a mythology persisted among ordinary people that French citizens protected Jews during the German Occupation, according to scholar Daniel R. Schwarz. "Every family believed its ancestors bel . . .